Exeter, UK: Societas, 2020. First Edition. Softcover. "In the summer of 2020, there was an eruption of violence directed towards historical monuments across Europe and North America. Statues were torn down while police watched. Prominent public figures, politicians and even museum directors cheered on the destruction. Supporters claimed it was payback for slavery; critics said it was neo-Marxist activism or sheer vandalism. Can we place the 2020 events in a...... More

Blue Creek, OH: Bloody Twin Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. "In the closed dark/ of the lodge I hear/ the rocks sing/ and sing again as/ water is poured, feel/ the spirits of rock/ and water searing,/ cleansing./ I pray in/ gratefulness./ This is the only peace/ there is." ("Sweat") A chapbook of poems by Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett (1927-1997), a Native American poet & professor of Cherokee-French ancestry who at one..... More

New York, NY: Coronet Communications, Inc., 1971. First Printing. Softcover. The third number of the exemplary series of commodified radicalism in the wake of the 1960s, as it continued to sour from peaceful flower-power into anger. With articles & poetry including a lengthy interview of anarchist-Yippie firebrand Abbie Hoffman conducted by editor Dotson Rader & co., illustrated with three photographs; two early poems by since-acclaimed writer & journalist Andre Codrescu..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed with drawing by Robert Bly. "In 1966 Robert Bly and David Ray founded AMERICAN WRITERS AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR, which organized the first series of "read-ins" against the war, in which most of the poets in the country took part. Last spring he read this long poem, then unfinished, at various halls across the country, in which he and..... More

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Oasis Publications, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. "(Breyten) Breytenbach has no ultimate truth to offer, no universal symbol to communicate. He has not prepared an aesthetic banquet for the senses, and there is no rhetoric in his visionary toasts. He shows unforgettably the plain facts of his panic paradise: Experiences of convulsion and passion, which he lived as a proud victim of his sensitivity, in a 'state of..... More

Bonn, Germany: Expanded Media Editions, E.M.E., 1993. First Edition Thus/ First German Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. A late prophetic statement by William S. Burroughs, our foremost Beat-&-Beyond figure of literary & cultural influence. Transcript of "Speech delivered 1980 at the occasion of the Institute of Ecotechnics' "1980 Planet Earth Conference" in Aix-en-Provence" as noted after title page. With complete texts in English & German, next to & reversed from each..... More

Cambridge, MA: Richard Cambridge, 1992. First Edition. Sheets in "VeloBind" Binding. Inscribed & signed by Richard Cambridge to Thomas Rain Crowe. A self-published book of poems by Richard Cambridge, an intense "Slam" poet who appropriately lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts near Boston. We can imagine these tough, topical, momentum-generating Jeremiads being bellowed by Cambridge at a Poetry Slam, as he frequently & prominently does. A bold production bound in "VeloBind" with..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. "...From the beginning the aim was to publish across the board, avoiding the provincial and the academic, and not publishing (that pitfall of the little press) just 'our gang.' I had in mind rather an international, dissident, insurgent ferment. What has proved most fascinating are the continuing cross-currents and cross-fertilizations between poets widely separated by language or geography, from France..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. The third number of the landmark first series of literary journals published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti's iconic Beat imprint, City Lights Books. Features an article by Richard Shattuck about Surrealist poet & playwright Guillaume Apollinaire (Apollinaire's great Whitman Happening") with a photograph of Apollinaire; Mary Beach's translation from French into English of a fragment from her husband Claude Pelieu's prose-poetry work..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2018. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Putting Peter Coyote's life into a few words would be impossible. He is an actor and writer. You may know his distinctive voice from so many documentaries and movies. He was a Digger and remembers those turbulent times well." (front flap) An essay by Peter Coyote, the acclaimed actor, screenwriter, director & author, about his experiences as a founding..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Judson Crews (1917-2010) was a poet, a bookseller, and small press publisher born and raised in Waco, Texas. It was in Waco that Judson first opened his Motive Bookshop and from the Waco location issued his first Motive Press publications. It is Taos, New Mexico, though that scholars of mid-century countercultural literature associate most closely with Crews; as his..... More

Cullowhee, NC: New Native Press, 2016. First Edition. Spiral Bound. Signed by Thomas Rain Crowe. "Tommy thought that it was strange that so many people would want to move away from their homes and live so close together and in such big houses. He didn't like seeing all the trees being cut down and the top of the mountain being pushed away by all the big machines. He frowned thinking..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1971. Second Enlarged Edition, First Edition Thus. Softcover. "TO BE FREE we've got to be free of/ any idea of freedom./ Today the State Dept lifted the ban on/ travel to China; and closed/ Merritt College." ("Revolutionary Letter #47," pg. 59) The canonical collection of poems by Diane di Prima (1934-2020), primary poet of the Beat Generation & beyond. Published as No. 27 in..... More